OLD ROSSENDALlANS

BmTHS, 1960-61. June-KEOUGH. To Jeffrey and Barbara (nee Bennett), a son, Michael Christopher a brother for GiIlian. July-WARING. To Rhona (nee Aspin) and Roger, a daughter, Sally. July-BERRY. To Olwen (nee Aldous) and Ross, a daughter, Tracey Diane. August-HINTON. To Anne Mary (nee Macdonald) and Colin Jack, a daughter, Fiona Mary at Canberra, Australia. August-NOON. To Audrey Kathleen (nee Shewell) and John, a daughter, Alice KatWeen, at Birmingham. October-CORN WELL. To Alan and Joan (nee Carter), a daughter, Katherine Elizabeth. November-PILLING. To Hazel (nee Davies) and Frank, a daughter, Lindsay Margaret. December-FRANKLAND. To Brian and Shirley, a son, Mark Simon at High Wycombe December-BECK. To Marion (nee Teal) and Les., a son, at Uranium City, Canada. December-KNOWLES. To Kathleen (nee Taylor) and Eric, a son, David Leonard, at Kisumu, Kenya. December-HEYWORTH. To Anne (nee Ashworth) and John, a son, Peter David Walmersley. December-PILLING. To Neville and Dorothy (nee Everitt), a son, Timothy Mark, a brother for John. April-BOARDMAN. To Glenis (nee Ashworth) and Peter, a daughter, Heather Jane a sister for Nicholas. May-CHAPMAN. To Gordon and Sandra (nee Scott), a son, Brian.

ENGAGEMENTS, 1960-61. July Mr. Barrie Dawson, B.Se. to Miss Margaret Elaine Mellor. act. Mr. Jeffrey Pilling, LLB. to Miss Shelia Joy Brown, of Lytham. Dec. Mr. Andrew Ashworth to Miss Margaret Jane Airey, of Oldham. Mr. Kenneth Slater, of to Miss Ann Berry, of Staeksteads. Miss Joan Liqdsay to Mr. Keith Purslow, of Whitewell Bottom. Jan. Miss Constance M. Rothwell to Mr. Stuart Michael Bibby., Miss Christine Mary Atkinson to Mr. Alan R. Ward. Feb. Mr. Dean Sherriff to Miss Marion Pointon, of Ashton. Mar. Mr. Clifford Taylor to Miss Joan Hollin. l Mr. Ralph Huggett to Miss Catherine Mary Smith, of Whitworth. !

April Mr. George Philip Howarth, of Crawshawbooth to Miss Sonia Taylor, of I . Mr. Richard Angus Holt to Miss Pauline Ann Dargie, of Worsley.

MARRIAGES, 1960-61. June Mr. Ronald Hodgekinson, B.Sc. to Miss Dorothy Taylor, S.R.N., Clinic Sister at Rossendale General Hospital. Mr. Dennis Ormerod to Miss Sheila Hannah. Mr. Roy Gwilliam to Miss Jean Thompson, Miss Anne Roberts to Mr. Frank Kenneth Mills, of . Miss Pat Smith, B.A. to Mr. Peter Thornton Hirst, B.A., of Pudsey. July Mr. Nigel C. Clarke to Miss Vivien Lord. Miss Mary Litton to Mr. Tom Stocks Wood. Miss Joan Bishop to Mr. Vincent Maden. Mr. Harry Lord, of Whitewell Bottom to Miss Maureen Clarkson, of Edgeside. Mr. Gordon Robinson, M.sc. to Miss Anne Wailer, of Haslingden. They are now livingin Australia. . Miss Barbara Timpson to Mr. .Tames Ratcliffe Townend. Mr. Kenneth J. Slater to Miss Dorothy Riley. Mr. D. Hornsby, B.A. to Miss Betty Walmersley. Both are taking up teaching appointments in Birmingham. Mr. K. Sanderson to Miss J. M. Baxter. Dr. W. R. Jackson, now a Lecturer in Chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast, was married at Aberystwyth, to Miss Heather Mary Lewis, Classics Mistress at a Belfast School. Aug. Miss Pamela Pickup, B. Vet. Sc. to Mr. John K. Almond, of Oswestry. Miss Joyce Dudley to the Rev. Robert Teasdale. Miss Maureen Landless to Mr. E. W. Bannister, B.Sc. They are sailing for Vancouver where they will both take up teaching appointments. Miss Dorothy A. Hargreaves to Mr. D. G. Bowden. Miss Jennifer M. Coupe to Mr. James M. Seaman, B.Sc., of LIanelIy. They will'- live in London, where both are taking up teaching appointments. Sept. Miss Patricia Griselda PurcelI, B.Sc. to Mr. Philip Bames. Dr. Joyce Newman, Registrar in Anaesthetics to the MaccIesfield Group of Hosp,itals to Mr. Alien Geoffrey Morrey, of Cheadle Hulme. Mr. K. Lonsdale, B.sc., now an Industrial Chemist for C.P.A. at LovecIough to Miss I. M. P. Moolgaoker, of Bumley. Mr. Kenneth Driver to Miss Mary Taylor, of HasIingden. Miss Una Banks to Mr. Donald William Cowpe, of Haslingden. Miss Lillian Ashworth, B.Sc. now a Hygiene Officer at St. Andrew's Hospital, London, to Mr. Michael Limb, of Shepherds Bush, London. Mr. Barrie Heyworth to Miss Maureen Porter, S.R.N., S.C.M., of Manchester. Miss Patricia Margaret Ingham to Mr. D. J. Akester. Mr. Colin Smith to Miss Marian Aspin. Miss Renee Burton to Mr. Jack Neil Heys, of LovecIough. Miss Eileen Taylor to Mr. J. A. Watkins, of Newchurch. Oct. Mr. Leslie Clegg to Miss Anne Barker. Miss Pauline S. Heyworth to Mr. Harold Shepherd, of Summerseat. Nov.. Miss Joan O. Barcroft, now a Disrict Midwife at Accrington to Mr. T. S. Dodd, of East Grimstead, Sussex. Mr. Geoffrey Filling, LLB. to Miss SheiIa Joy Brown, of Lytham. Miss Ann Valerie Barker, only daughter of the late Mr. J. E. Barker, former Art Master at the School and Mrs. C. M. Barker to Mr. Eric Hill, of Bath. Dec. Mr. Richard Alan Hoyle to Miss Marian Best. Mr. Neal B. Nuttall, now a Crafts Teacher at Fearns County Secondary School to Miss Beryl Parkinson. Miss Margaret Ashworth to Mr. Anthony Lenney. Jan. Miss Dorothy W. Ashworth to Mr. Vincent Cornwell. Miss Joan M. Ayrton to Mr. Raymond Whiteley- Feb. Miss Dorothy Ashworth, of Waterfoot to Mr. Peter Brian Hartley of Barrowford. Miss Mavis Holmes to Mr. Matthew Connolly, of . Mar. Mt. John Stansfield to Miss Jean Moss, of . Miss Barbara Lomas to Mr. A. J. Mills, of Cheadle Hulme. Miss Margaret Nuttall, of Crawshawbooth, now a Ward Sister at Victoria Hospital, Burnley, to Mr. John N. Horsfall, of Burnley. Miss Eileen Digby to Mr. George Thompson, of Jarrow. Mr. Donald H. Hartley .to Miss Glenys Margaret Cowles. Miss Ann Buck to Mr. Barrie Ginty. April Mr. Paul Thompson, now Assistant Factory Manager with the Goss Printing Press Co., Preston to Miss Joan Mary Ross, of Nelson. Miss Barbara Ann Douglas, now of Fulwood to Mr. Jack Jones, of Rochdale. Mr. lames H. Holt to Miss Sylvia Joy Farrington, of Wavendon. Both are music teachers in Leeds. Mr. Malcolm Pickup, now a Teacher at Baldock County Secondary Sehool, Hertfordshire to Miss Margaret Jacobs, of Newlyn, Cornwall. A teacher at Bottisham Village College, Cambridgeshire. May Miss Dorothy Newsholme to Mr. David B. Shalliker, of Burnley. Mr. Brian D. Baker, now on the staff of the Exchequer and Audit Department, London to Miss Wendy Frances Mobbs, of Didcot.

DEATHS, 1960-61. Nov. Mrs. Rose Taylor (nee Taylor), of Solihull and formerly of Edgeside, died at the age of 37. Jan. Miss Antoinette Elizabeth Holt, the only Woman Solicitor in the Valley, aged 52. Mr. J. T. Hirst, formerly Senior French Master and Head of the Evening Institute' - died at Kents Bank. i

DEGREES.

Mr. Kenneth Slater passed his final testameur examination for Associate Membership of the Institute of Municipal Engineers (A.M.I.Mun.E). Mr. John B. Whittaker, B.Se. (Dunelm) with first class honours in zoology. Mr. James Jordan, B.Se. Econ. (London). He has studied in the evening at Burnley MunicipalTechnicalCollege. , Mr. James Popple, M.A., in Education (Sheffield). He and his wife are leaving shortly. , , to take up a teaching appointment at the Nanaine High School, British Columbia. Mr. Keith Deeley has been made a Member of the Institute of Laboratory Technology. Mr. Brian Robinson, M.Sc. (Manchester). Mr. Anthony Lenney, B.A., (Liverpool) Hons. English Class H. He has been awarded the Mrs. J. I. C. Davies Studentship to continue studies for his M.A. Miss Elsye Hargreaves, B.A. (Liverpool), General Studies. Miss Pamela Pickup, B.Vet.Se. (Liverpool). Mr. Alan Digby, M.A. (Leeds). He is Senior Geography Master at Widnes. Mr. Donald Kitson Entwistle, D.A., A.R.I.B.A., of has been awarded the Diploma in Town Planning (Dip. T.P.) of the University of Manchester. He is on the staff of the Manchester City Architect. Mr. Peter Nixon, B.A. Hons. Agricultural Botany Class H. Mr. Bame Dawson, B.Se. (Sheffield) Hons. Chemistry Class Ill. He has obtained a post with the Dunlop Rubber Co. at Sutton Coldfield. Mr. J. T. Holt, LLB. qualified as a Solicitor. Mr. A. Barker, B.Se., Tech. (Manchester)) Hon. Electrical Engineering Class HI. He has obtained a post in the Computor Division of the English Electric Co., Kidsgrove, Staffs. Mr. J. Boyden, B.Se. Tech. (Manchester) Hon. Chemical Engineering Class H. Div. I. He has obtained a post with Scotchboy Adhesive Tapes Ltd. Mr. J. Crawford, B.Sc. Tech. (Manchester) Hons. Textile Chemistry Class H Div. 2. ,fIe is joining the staff of Simpson and Godlee Ltd. at their Bevis Green Works, Walmersley. Mr.J, M. H. Gastall, B.Sc. Tech. (Manchester) Hons. Metallurgy Class IT Div. 2, He has obtained a post with the United Steel Co. Ltd. Mr.J. F. Mead, B.Se. Tech. (Manchester) Hons. Electrical Engineering Class II Div. 2. He has taken up a post at Metropolitan Vickers, Manchester. Mr. John Haworth, B.Sc. in Horticulture, Nottingham. Mr. Paul Thomson has been awarded the Diploma of the College of Aeronautics (D.C.A.) on completion of a post graduate course at the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, Bletchley, Bucks. Mr.Ma1colmGreenhalgh, M.Se. (Tech.) in Department of Textile Chemistry at Man- chester College of Seience and Technology. He is now a Research Chemist with Bradford Dyers. Mr.Angus Greenhalgh, B.Se., Graduate Certificate in Education at Manchester. Mr.W. A. Barcroft, B.Se., has been made an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (A.M.I.C.E.). MissAnne E. Ward, B.A., passed with distinction the Diploma of Education of Oxford University. In September she takes up a post as History Mistress at Wiggeston Girls School, Leicester. November- Mr. Gordon Robinson, M:Se.,has been awarded the degree of Ph.D. by Manchester University for research in Chemical Crystallography. He is on the staff of Sidney University. December- MissChristine,Atkinson took the prize as top student in the Domestic Seience Course at Burnley Municipal Technical ColIege. January,I961- Mr.',revor Smith, M.Sc. (Manchester). Mr.Harold Howorth passed the final examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. March- Miss Shelia Cook, S.R.N.. She has trained at Manchester Royal Infirmary. MissEIaine PilIing passed her finals in State psychaiatric Nursing at the Bethlem Maudsley (Guy's Neurosurgical Branch) Hospital, London and has been appointed ! a Deputy Sister there. MissBarbara Rankilor has obtained the Licensed Trade Diploma with honours. L PUBLIC EVENTS June- Mr. James Arthur Dugdale became Chairman of Padiham Council. He retired from the Burnley Police Force in 1954 after 25 years service. Mr. Douglas Chew was appointed Headmaster ;of Fritchley Critch C. of E. School near Matlock in Derbyshire. After nine years in the Fleet Air Arm Mr. Richard Henry Taylor left for Khartoum as a representative of the International Air Radio Company of London. Mr. Edward J. Ashworth has been. selected for training for the ministry of the Church of and is to start a three year course at Clifton Theological College, Bristol. July~ Mr. W. A Duffus, B.Sc., A.M.I.Mun.E., A.MT.H.E., was appointed Area Surveyor for the Oswestry Division of Shropshire. September- Miss J. S. Lomax, now a student at Rochdale School of Art will have some of her work (a printed fabric) on show at an exhibition in London for the best entries in the Intermediate course in the National Diploma in Design. December-

Mr. Kenneth Slater, AM.I.Mun.E., obtained a post as an Engineering Assistant with Durham County Council. January- Dr. Bridie Purcell has been appointed part-time M.O.H. for the County Council No. 6 Health Division based at Reedley. Mr. Donald H. Maden went out to Peru as Assistant Dyer with Duncan Fox & Co. Ltd. Mr. Christopher J. Ebbrell left Rossendale to take up a sub-editorial post on "The ,Motor Cycle" magazine in London. Mr. George Henshall, BA., formerly Senior Geography Master, was appointed Head- master of Hastings Grammar School. February- Mr. James A. Heaps' was appointed Headmaster of Holme Pierrepoint C. of E. School, Nottingham. April- Miss Anne Netherwood, now at the Regional College of Art in Manchester, won. first prize, a trip to Italy, in a competition to produce an original design in the manner of an Italian painter. P.C. Joseph Hoyle has been transferred to the C.I.D. branch of the Metropolitan Police. Mr. h.enneth Rushton was appointed Deputy Borough Treasurer of Bacup. May- Mr. Curwen Rawlinson was ordained in Liverpool Cathedral. He will go to the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Wigan.